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THE BOOK OF<br/>
<span class=large>JOSHUA</span>
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CHAPTER 18
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Tabernacle of congregation set up at Shiloh—Benjamin receives inheritance by lot.
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And</span> the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/18/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 20: 26 (26-27); 1 Sam. 1: 3 (3-18); 1 Sam. 3: 21; Jer. 7: 12.">Shiloh</a>, and set up the <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/18/1b" mark="b" type="R" title="HEB tent; TG Temple.">tabernacle</a> of the congregation there.  And the land was subdued before them.
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And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
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And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long <i>are</i> ye slack to go to possess the land, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of your fathers hath given you?
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Give out from among you three men for <i>each</i> tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come <i>again</i> to me.
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And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/18/5a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB border (also v. 11, 19, 20); Judg. 11: 22.">coast</a> on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.
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Ye shall therefore describe the land <i>into</i> seven parts, and bring <i>the</i> <i>description</i> hither to me, that I may cast <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/18/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 14: 2.">lots</a> for you here before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God.
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But the <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/18/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Priesthood, Aaronic.">Levites</a> have no part among you; for the priesthood of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> their <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/18/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Priesthood, History of.">inheritance</a>: and Gad, and <sup>c</sup><a href="josh/18/7c" mark="c" type="A" title="Josh. 22: 1 (1-6).">Reuben</a>, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> gave them.
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&#182; And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> in Shiloh.
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And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came <i>again</i> to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
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&#182; And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.
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&#182; And the lot of the tribe of the children of <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/18/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 42: 4; Gen. 44: 29; Gen. 49: 27 (26-28).">Benjamin</a> came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
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And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/18/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 7: 2.">Beth</a>-aven.
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And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/18/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 35: 6; Gen. 48: 3.">Luz</a>, which <i>is</i> Beth-el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that <i>lieth</i> on the south side of the <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/18/13b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR lower.">nether</a> Beth-horon.
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And the border was drawn <i>thence,</i> and <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/18/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR turned.">compassed</a> the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that <i>lieth</i> before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which <i>is</i> Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this <i>was</i> the west quarter.
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And the south quarter <i>was</i> from the end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
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And the border came down to the end of the mountain that <i>lieth</i> before the valley of the son of <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/18/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 19: 2 (2, 6).">Hinnom</a>, <i>and</i> which <i>is</i> in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/18/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 23: 10; Jer. 7: 31 (31-32).">Hinnom</a>, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to En-rogel,
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And was drawn from the north, and went forth to En-shemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which <i>is</i> over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/18/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 15: 6.">stone</a> of Bohan the son of Reuben,
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And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:
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And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/18/19a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE the Dead Sea.">the</a> salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this <i>was</i> the south coast.
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And Jordan was the border of it on the east side.  This <i>was</i> the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
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Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,
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And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
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And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
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And Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
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Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
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And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
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And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
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And Zelah, Eleph, and <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/18/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 15: 8.">Jebusi</a>, which <i>is</i> Jerusalem, <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/18/28b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Sam. 21: 6.">Gibeath</a>, <i>and</i> Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages.  This <i>is</i> the <sup>c</sup><a href="josh/18/28c" mark="c" type="A" title="Judg. 1: 21; Judg. 19: 14.">inheritance</a> of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
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